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 Politicians


 * José S. Alegría - Poet, writer, lawyer and politician. Alegría was a founding member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and president of the political organization from 1928 to 1930.


 * María Luisa Arcelay - First woman in Puerto Rico and in all of Latin America to be elected to a government legislative body.


 * Carmen E. Arroyo - First Puerto Rican woman elected to any state assembly, chair New York Hispanic Legislative Caucus.


 * Herman Badillo - First Puerto Rican to serve in U.S. Congress.


 * Dr. José Celso Barbosa - "The Father of Puerto Rico's Statehood Movement"


 * Roman Baldorioty de Castro - "Father of Puerto Rican Autonomist Movement"


 * Antonio R. Barceló - Founder of the "Puerto Rican Liberal Party", first president of the Senate of Puerto Rico.


 * Dr. Ramón Emeterio Betances a.k.a. "The Father of the Puerto Rican Nation" - Main leader of the Grito de Lares revolution.


 * Cayetano Coll y Cuchí - The first President of Puerto Rico House of Representatives.


 * José Coll y Cuchi - Founder of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party.


 * Maria Colón Sánchez - Colón Sánchez was an activist and politician who in 1988, became the first Hispanic woman elected to the Connecticut General Assembly.


 * Gilberto Concepcion de Gracia (authored 50% or more) - Founder of the Puerto Rican Independence Party.


 * José M. Dávila Monsanto - Senator, politician and lawyer, Dávila Monsanto was a co-founder of the "Partido Popular Democrático de Puerto Rico".


 * José de Diego - "Father of Puerto Rican Independence Movement"


 * Dr. Antonio Fernós-Isern - First Puerto Rican cardiologist and Resident Commissioner.


 * Maurice Ferre - Former Mayor of Miami, Florida.


 * Dr. Leopoldo Figueroa - Co-founder of the "Independence Association", one of three political organizations which merged to form the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. Figueroa, had changed political ideals and in 1948, was a member of the Partido Estadista Puertorriqueño (Puerto Rican Statehood Party). That year, he was the only member of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives who did not belong to the Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico PPD, who opposed the PPD's approval of the infamous Law 53, also known as "Puerto Rico's Gag Law" and "Ley de La Mordaza", which violated the civil rights of those who favored Puerto Rican Independence.


 * Oscar Garcia Rivera, Sr. - Former New York State Assemblyman, in 1937 he became the first Puerto Rican to be elected to public office in the continental United States and in 1956, he also became the first Puerto Rican to be nominated as the Republican candidate for Justice of the City Court.


 * Teófilo José Jaime María Le Guillou - Founder of the Municipality of Vieques.


 * Juan Marí Bras - Founder of the "Movimiento Pro Independencia" and the "Modern Puerto Rican Socialist Party".


 * Rosendo Matienzo Cintrón - Matienzo Cintrón was a political leader who in his early political career favored Puerto Rican statehood and later became an advocate for Puerto Rico's independence and founder of the Independence Party of Puerto Rico.


 * Antonio Mattei Lluberas- Leader of the second and last major revolt against Spanish colonial rule in Puerto Rico in what is known as the Intentona de Yauco of 1897. Mattei Lluberas served as Mayor of Yauco from 1904 to 1906.


 * Olga A. Méndez - First Puerto Rican New York State Senator.


 * Tony Méndez - First native-born Puerto Rican to become a district leader of a major political party in New York City.


 * Adam Clayton Powell IV - Former New York State Assemblyman


 * Francisco Ramírez Medina - President of the Republic of Puerto Rico (23 September 1868), during the Grito, de Lares revolt.


 * Ernesto Ramos Antonini - Former Speaker of Puerto Rico's House of Representatives.


 * Felisa Rincón de Gautier - First woman to be elected Mayor of an American capital city.


 * Segundo Ruiz Belvis - Leader of the Grito de Lares revolt.


 * Nydia Velázquez - Congresswoman from New York City.
 * Julio Vizcarrondo - Politician who played an instrumental role in the development and passage of the Moret Law which in 1873 abolished slavery in Puerto Rico. Vizcarrondo was also the founder of the Protestant movement in the Iberian Peninsula in the 19th century.


 * Manuel Zeno Gandía - Puerto Rico patriot and leader of cooperative movement in Puerto Rico.

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